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Korea can impose $84.8 mil in retaliatory duties over US washer measures: WTO

The World Trade Organization (WTO) ruled Saturday that South Korea can move to impose annual retaliatory duties worth US$84.8 million against U.S.-made goods in response to measures taken against large residential washers. The ruling outlined South Korea "shall be entitled to impose suspension of concessions or other obligations" in the amount of $74.4 million for U.S. anti-d...

Diplomacy | 2019-02-10 10:10

Returned to sender: 1,200 tons of Korean garbage back from Philippines

More than 1,000 tons of garbage shipped to the Philippines falsely as “recyclable materials” last year have been returned to Korea. According to the Ministry of Environment Wednesday, officials would soon look inside the 51 trash-filled containers that arrived at the port of Pyeongtaek-Dangjin Sunday morning. It is part of 6,300 tons of garbage a Korean company exported to a ...

Diplomacy | 2019-02-07 15:20

South Korea investigates tonnes of illegal trash sent back from Philippines

'Comfort woman' statue installed on resort island Boracay

A memorial statue for “comfort women,” the victims of Japan's wartime sexual slavery, has been installed on the Philippines resort island of Boracay. Human rights activist Nelia Sancho, 64, reportedly set up the bronze statue of two women at her property in Barangay Caticlan.

Diplomacy | 2019-02-07 13:13

US, NK expected to hammer out details for 2nd Kim-Trump summit

North Korea and the United States are expected to fine-tune details for the former's denuclearization and the latter's corresponding measures, when their working-level officials meet next week in preparation for a planned summit between their leaders.

Diplomacy | 2019-02-01 16:05

'NK promises to destroy all uranium enrichment facilities'

Korea expresses concern about crisis in Venezuela

The South Korean government expressed concern Friday about a drawn-out political crisis in Venezuela, saying it would actively join efforts to address a humanitarian problem. "The government expects the democracy of Venezuela to be restored at an early date through a peaceful and democratic process, in which all parties concerned participate," the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ...

Diplomacy | 2019-02-01 13:51

Nearly 1,000 join funeral for late comfort woman Kim

More than 1,000 people walked with the funeral procession for the late former comfort woman Kim Bok-dong, stopping by venues meaningful to Kim Friday, including the former Japanese embassy in Jongno-gu, central Seoul.

Diplomacy | 2019-02-01 09:45

Sex slave's body carried to Japanese embassy

North Korean waitresses send wreath for comfort woman

Members of a group of North Korean waitresses who fled a Pyongyang-run restaurant in China sent a condolence wreath to the funeral parlor of Kim Bok-dong, the former "comfort woman" who died late Monday. Kim, who had repeatedly called on Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to apologize directly to women forced to serve in wartime brothels, battled cancer and was hospitalized, ...

Diplomacy | 2019-01-31 10:36

Nearly 1,000 join funeral for late comfort woman Kim

Citizens commemorate late comfort women at Wednesday Rally

More than 500 citizens and activists participated in the regular Wednesday Rally held in front of the former Japanese Embassy building in central Seoul to protest Japan's wartime sexual slavery of Korean women, two days after one of its victims, Kim Bok-dong, passed away.

Diplomacy | 2019-01-30 17:02

'Fight till the end': Icon is gone, not her spirit [PHOTOS]

Protesters call for Japan's sincere apology and due compensation to women pressed to serve in Japanese military brothels during World War II, in the 1,372nd weekly “Wednesday rally” in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, Jan. 30. It was the first rally after the death of Kim Bok-dong, a longtime icon at the protests who first raised the issue of “comfort women” in 1992. K...

Diplomacy | 2019-01-30 16:35

Korean man who died in Mexico returned with missing organs

The body of a Korean man who died in Mexico has been returned to his family - without his brain, stomach and heart. Mexican authorities claim that the man, 35, surnamed Kim, died of natural causes despite a scuffle with other people just before his death. His widow fears that someone is trying to cover up the truth.

Diplomacy | 2019-01-30 15:12

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